In professional wrestling, there is no bigger company than World Wrestling Entertainment. And there is no bigger event than WrestleMania.

In many ways, WrestleMania is the summit of Mount Everest, and while countless have attempted to scale its at times impossible height and unrelenting terrain, only the elite can claim they’ve stood atop the highest peak in pro wrestling.

Consider last year, where just 37 WWE Superstars were featured on the main WrestleMania show. Thirty-seven individuals were featured from well over 100 under contract, in just 10 matches on the biggest night of the year. Others were featured in pre-show matches, but roughly a quarter of those signed to working contracts made it onto the card.

WrestleMania continues to define careers, make legends and be the place every kid who ever dreamed of becoming a pro wrestler hopes to some day find themselves.

“WrestleMania is what everybody strives for,” said Canadian WWE Superstar Tyler Breeze. “It's what everybody is ready for, everybody wants and everybody shows up for. That's why it's the spectacle that it is.”

For Breeze, his only taste of WrestleMania action has come during pre-show action, twice a participant in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royale.

As a member of the popular Breezango, which features Breeze and Fandango, the British Columbia native is hoping this might be his year.

“We're trying to look toward getting ourselves a tag title match on that show. I don't really see a reason why we shouldn't be added to the mix,” said the 30-year-old, whose real name is Mattias Clement.

A coveted spot on the biggest and most lucrative night of the year isn’t something that’s simply handed out, Breeze said during a telephone interview with international journalists. It’s earned over the course of the year.

"We don't really have an off-season,” he said. “We're kind of geared toward WrestleMania right now, but as soon we're done, we're heading over to Europe. We've got tours over there. And as soon as we get back from that, everybody's already gearing to SummerSlam. And then SummerSlam onto Survivor Series and then Survivor Series onto Royal Rumble and then we're back around to Mania.”

With so many of the industry’s best now residing in WWE as it expands across the globe, it’s harder than ever to land a spot on WrestleMania, Breeze admitted.

“You don't really have a chance to kind of slow down,” he said. “If you do, everybody's going to pass you by because everybody's hungry and our roster is so full of talent right now that there’s only so many spots on those TV shows and if you want them, you've got to work hard to get them."

After debuting with WWE in 2010 as part of its developmental Florida Championship Wrestling brand, Breeze became a star after FCW became NXT, where the Tyler Breeze character began regaling fans with his elite combination of in-ring skills and talent with the mic, and his early obsession with the selfie. In October 2015, Breeze got the long-awaited call to the main roster.

Five years in developmental might seem long to some, but Breeze said being patient is a crucial part of sports entertainment.

"Everybody has their time,” he said. “It's all about patience. I know it's very easy to get frustrated and sit there and say, 'Why me?' but it's all about patience. We have an extremely talented roster and everybody eventually gets a chance and you have to be positive and just enjoy the journey."

He also dismissed the notion that he’s been misused on the main roster following his call-up from NXT, where he was a top draw and fan favourite.

"It's easy to look at it like that. I don't like to look at it like that. I'm still very young, I've still got a lot of career ahead of me. It's not really about being misused,” Breeze said, adding he’s only been on the main roster a few short years. “I like to use Shawn Michaels as a reference where he came up and he never really even became the Heartbreak Kid until he was eight or nine years in WWE. Everything takes time.”

Getting a character over today, Breeze said, isn’t done the way it was done years ago.

“I understand that it's hard in our world nowadays,” he said. “Everything is so fast moving. If you lose someone's attention, they're on their phone checking something because you can scroll through endless feeds. But it's very much a patience game. It's a long-term thing. It's about being around. The more years you're around, people kind of go, 'Tyler Breeze, Tyler Breeze, Tyler Breeze ... I'm used to seeing him.' You build that fan base that rallies behind you and eventually gets to the point where you can't ignore it and they go, 'You know what? This is somebody that people care about and we've got to do something.' It's all about being patient."

As it was for many, WrestleMania was the inspiration that drew Breeze to professional wrestling as a kid.

"The WrestleMania memory that I have that kind of solidified my path in life was when I saw Mike Tyson on there with Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin,” Breeze said, alluding to WrestleMania 14. “That moment, when I saw that match, was kind of the deciding factor of, 'Yep, that's exactly where I want to be when I grow up.' And everything in my life kind of geared toward that as I was growing. If I needed any sort of push in that direction, that was definitely it."

Following his call-up to the main roster, Breeze got his first taste of the WrestleMania experience, making his Mania debut in the Andre the Giant Memorial battle royal. But it wasn’t until his teaming with Fandango, and later the creation of their Fashion Police gimmick, which became a huge success, that he found a regular home on WWE programming.

"Getting paired with Fandango … the first little while, we were kind of struggling to find what our chemistry was and then finally it clicked and everything just finds its place. I think being here with Fandango really helps. I help him out, he helps me out, and I think we've really built something special."

After forming in May 2016, Breezango gained popularity as a tag team, but it was after debuting their Fashion Files detective vignettes that WWE brass were forced to take notice. The clips were wildly successful and entertaining, landing weekly on Smackdown for months and months. The Fashion Files came through collaboration, Breeze said.

"We were both trying to figure out what our chemistry was, and all of the sudden we just started throwing ideas out there and one of them was to be the Fashion Police,” he said. “We filmed little videos and then all of a sudden it kind of just took off. We just have a lot of fun with it and other people have joined in and they would have fun with it. All of a sudden it became a thing that was every week on Smackdown for about eight months. It definitely played a big part in kind of getting some momentum behind us."

It’s that momentum, Breeze said, that they hope to use to propel themselves into a main card match at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans on April 8.

"We still have some unfinished business,” Breeze answered when asked if a singles run was possible again soon. “We still have some loose ends with The Usos that we want to tie up. Until we get those Smackdown tag team titles, we don't really have a need to go on our own. We're having fun together. Until that happens, I don't see us splitting up any time soon."